Describes his journey to and arrival at Rochester to visit Heylyn. Transcription: at my irruption. Conductor came along, wanted ticket. My not having procured one at the depot would cost me $ 3 more ? unless I could dart out and procure one at a way-side office where the locomotive was hitched on. This I did. All right, now! A hot day. Breakfasted on my sandwiches and a bottle of Bass ?. The Hudson river and rail, pretty familiar glimpses of the latter. Some brief pauses at stations, as Po ?keepsie &c. Cars very full. papers-?: got Tribune. View of the old Catskills ? little Athens, Hu
Describes his journey to and arrival at Rochester to visit Heylyn. Transcription: at my irruption. Conductor came along, wanted ticket. My not having procured one at the depot would cost me $ 3 more ? unless I could dart out and procure one at a way-side office where the locomotive was hitched on. This I did. All right, now! A hot day. Breakfasted on my sandwiches and a bottle of Bass ?. The Hudson river and rail, pretty familiar glimpses of the latter. Some brief pauses at stations, as Po ?keepsie &c. Cars very full. papers-?: got Tribune. View of the old Catskills ? little Athens, Hudson. Albany. Across the river by ferryboat, through avenue of hack-drivers into cars again; off, after some delay. Sunny afternoon. Apple-buying where the train stopped for ?ǣrefreshment. ? By 7 1/2 we reach Rochester. No [Edward] Heylyn ? consulted address, and to his lodgings, near by. He ill, in bed. Friendly welcome from Mrs H [Liz Heylyn]. Saw Heylyn ? looks plump and burly ? despondent and floored ? thinks he ?s going to die (so Mrs H told me) ? only a bit of a bilious attack, severe in its way but not dangerous. Talked with Mrs H., after supping, and to bed with a young country fellow, a boarder in the house. He came from near Byron, knew the Halls and told me some news of them. The old man [Elisha Hall] (?ǣScrew Hall ? he called him ? he is generally known by it, from his invention) has the reputation of being litigious and ingenuous: Homer [Hall] is as wont, and ?ǣCaptain ? [Haydon] Hall ? the elder son of the family, who got married at Dobs ? is said to be in Australia. More news of former acquaintance. Heylyn says that my respectable cousin [Richard Gunn] has left Rochester and is ?ǣbutchering ? in Batavia, a place some dozen or more miles from it. Dick Gunn ?s wife died, previous to Title: Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries: Volume 9, page 209, September 27, 1858 . 27 September 1858. Gunn, Thomas Butler, 1826-1903
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